The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments
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The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments
- Publication date
- 2003
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
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- Language
- English
xiv, 263 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index
The Human Environment -- The nature of human physical boundaries -- The importance of preparation for extreme exposures -- Some basic concepts of survival analysis -- Characteristics of life-support systems -- Survival and Adaptation -- The science of human physiology -- Principles of physiological regulation and adaptation -- Defining physiological adaptation to the environment -- Acclimatization and acclimation -- Cross-Acclimation -- The complexity of adaptation to environment -- Positive and negative cross-acclimation -- Biochemical mediators of physiological adaptation -- Stress proteins and the stress response -- Food for Thought -- A brief overview of human starvation -- Starvation: an affliction of the very young and the very old -- Assessing the severity of starvation -- Why children die of starvation -- Other critical factors in human starvation -- Starvation and obesity: strange bedfellows -- The molecular basis of obesity and hunger -- Water and Salt -- The composition of body water -- Why do human food and water requirements differ? -- The body's minimum daily water requirements -- The mechanism of dehydration and the body's responses -- Dehydration and heat tolerance -- Survival time without drinking water -- Water That Makes Men Mad -- The composition of seawater -- Ingestion of seawater -- Survival at sea -- Lessons from the USS Indianapolis -- A practical approach to salt and water loss at sea -- Tolerance to Heat -- Mammalian homeothermy -- Humans as tropical primates -- Body heat balance -- Heat acclimatization -- Heat acclimatization and physical fitness -- The limitations of human tolerance to heat -- Heat illnesses -- Death by heatstroke -- Endless Oceans of Sand -- The camel and the Berber -- Desert lessons from Pablo and the Haj -- Thermal stress and behavior -- Importance and regulation of heat-escape activities -- Hypothermia -- The effects of extreme cold on the extremities -- Settings for systemic hypothermia -- The physiology of hypothermia -- Unexpected effects of cold and hypothermia -- The subtle effect of winter on human mortality -- Life and Death on the Crystal Desert -- Life in Antarctica -- The race for the South Pole -- Failure to adapt to Antarctic conditions -- Engineering out the need to tolerate cold -- Human acclimation to cold -- Estivation -- Hibernation -- Hibernation, energy conservation, and suspended animation -- Survival in Cold Water -- The sinking of the Titanic -- Water temperature and human survival -- Prediction of survival time in cold water -- Survival behavior in cold water -- Hypothermia in deep sea diving -- Respiratory heat losses and slow cooling -- Air as Good as We Deserve -- Life in an oxidizing atmosphere -- Biological oxidations and oxygen toxicity -- Antioxidant defenses and the oxidant--antioxidant balance -- The free radical theory of aging -- Bends and Rapture of the Deep -- Decompression sickness -- Rapture of the deep -- Pressure reversal of anesthesia and the high-pressure nervous syndrome -- Implications of high pressure for human life on other planets -- Sunken Submarines -- The sinking of the Kursk -- The debate over submarine escape -- The physics of submarine disasters -- Analysis of survival factors on sunken submarines -- Climbing Higher -- The physical environment of high altitude -- Physiological responses to high altitude -- High-altitude illnesses -- The zone of death -- Limits of human ascent to high altitude -- Into the Wild Blue Yonder -- The International Standard Atmosphere -- Human visitation to the stratosphere -- Depressurization accidents -- The Armstrong line -- The pressure suit -- G Whiz -- The continuity principle -- Gravity and acceleration -- High-G environments -- Limits of high-G tolerance -- Adaptation to sustained G forces -- The Gravity of Microgravity -- Space sickness -- Intolerance of upright posture -- Loss of bone mass in space -- Loss of muscle mass in space -- Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Biological and chemical warfare agents -- Thermonuclear weapons -- Types of radiation -- Biological effects of radiation -- Radiation and the human body -- Human Prospects for Colonizing Space -- Advanced life-support systems -- Mission to Mars -- Habitability factors in long-duration spaceflight -- Deleterious effects of long-term exposure to microgravity -- Effects of life in space on human immunity -- Long-term effects of radiation on human life in space -- Establishment of permanent human populations in space
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index
The Human Environment -- The nature of human physical boundaries -- The importance of preparation for extreme exposures -- Some basic concepts of survival analysis -- Characteristics of life-support systems -- Survival and Adaptation -- The science of human physiology -- Principles of physiological regulation and adaptation -- Defining physiological adaptation to the environment -- Acclimatization and acclimation -- Cross-Acclimation -- The complexity of adaptation to environment -- Positive and negative cross-acclimation -- Biochemical mediators of physiological adaptation -- Stress proteins and the stress response -- Food for Thought -- A brief overview of human starvation -- Starvation: an affliction of the very young and the very old -- Assessing the severity of starvation -- Why children die of starvation -- Other critical factors in human starvation -- Starvation and obesity: strange bedfellows -- The molecular basis of obesity and hunger -- Water and Salt -- The composition of body water -- Why do human food and water requirements differ? -- The body's minimum daily water requirements -- The mechanism of dehydration and the body's responses -- Dehydration and heat tolerance -- Survival time without drinking water -- Water That Makes Men Mad -- The composition of seawater -- Ingestion of seawater -- Survival at sea -- Lessons from the USS Indianapolis -- A practical approach to salt and water loss at sea -- Tolerance to Heat -- Mammalian homeothermy -- Humans as tropical primates -- Body heat balance -- Heat acclimatization -- Heat acclimatization and physical fitness -- The limitations of human tolerance to heat -- Heat illnesses -- Death by heatstroke -- Endless Oceans of Sand -- The camel and the Berber -- Desert lessons from Pablo and the Haj -- Thermal stress and behavior -- Importance and regulation of heat-escape activities -- Hypothermia -- The effects of extreme cold on the extremities -- Settings for systemic hypothermia -- The physiology of hypothermia -- Unexpected effects of cold and hypothermia -- The subtle effect of winter on human mortality -- Life and Death on the Crystal Desert -- Life in Antarctica -- The race for the South Pole -- Failure to adapt to Antarctic conditions -- Engineering out the need to tolerate cold -- Human acclimation to cold -- Estivation -- Hibernation -- Hibernation, energy conservation, and suspended animation -- Survival in Cold Water -- The sinking of the Titanic -- Water temperature and human survival -- Prediction of survival time in cold water -- Survival behavior in cold water -- Hypothermia in deep sea diving -- Respiratory heat losses and slow cooling -- Air as Good as We Deserve -- Life in an oxidizing atmosphere -- Biological oxidations and oxygen toxicity -- Antioxidant defenses and the oxidant--antioxidant balance -- The free radical theory of aging -- Bends and Rapture of the Deep -- Decompression sickness -- Rapture of the deep -- Pressure reversal of anesthesia and the high-pressure nervous syndrome -- Implications of high pressure for human life on other planets -- Sunken Submarines -- The sinking of the Kursk -- The debate over submarine escape -- The physics of submarine disasters -- Analysis of survival factors on sunken submarines -- Climbing Higher -- The physical environment of high altitude -- Physiological responses to high altitude -- High-altitude illnesses -- The zone of death -- Limits of human ascent to high altitude -- Into the Wild Blue Yonder -- The International Standard Atmosphere -- Human visitation to the stratosphere -- Depressurization accidents -- The Armstrong line -- The pressure suit -- G Whiz -- The continuity principle -- Gravity and acceleration -- High-G environments -- Limits of high-G tolerance -- Adaptation to sustained G forces -- The Gravity of Microgravity -- Space sickness -- Intolerance of upright posture -- Loss of bone mass in space -- Loss of muscle mass in space -- Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Biological and chemical warfare agents -- Thermonuclear weapons -- Types of radiation -- Biological effects of radiation -- Radiation and the human body -- Human Prospects for Colonizing Space -- Advanced life-support systems -- Mission to Mars -- Habitability factors in long-duration spaceflight -- Deleterious effects of long-term exposure to microgravity -- Effects of life in space on human immunity -- Long-term effects of radiation on human life in space -- Establishment of permanent human populations in space
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